Here's Why Jonathan Could Not Cover His Chief of Staff, He Had To Fire Him Immediately

Corruption is a way of life for most political office holders in Nigeria, especially those working closely with the President because they see themselves as untouchable, since no one can challenge any financial requests from them as it would seem that such fraudulent requests are for the good of Mr President.

Sometimes the President is involved, agreed, but most of the times these people just use the name of the Oga at the Top to loot billions and become multi-billionaires and powerful men, overnight.
That is what is still going on in Nigeria today. A huge dossier prepared on the activities of the "sacked" Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed an extensive corruption profile...
But the former Deputy Governor of Edo State is unlikely to be asked to answer for the many "deals" because Jonathan does not want to open a Pandora’s Box involving persons at the highest levels of his administration, analysts have told Sahara Reporters.
Mr. Oghiadomhe’s bag of tricks includes Kerosene subsidy fraud at the NNPC to the magnitude of millions of dollars with a controversial businessman, Jide Omokore, owner of oil companies Atlantic Energy Limited and Seven Energy.
Both companies are at the center of $6billion fraud cited by the Governor of the Central Bank, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, in his recent revelation to the Nigeria Senate that the NNPC has not been able to account for as much as $20billion of the $67billion worth of oil it lifted between 2012 and 2013.
Jonathan reportedly asked Oghiadomhe to resign after security agencies revealed his deep involvement, first, in a Rice waiver scam used to fund Jonathan’s Presidential Election in 2011; the security reports traced billions of naira to the duo, showing that they did not declare or remit a greater portion of the “profit” from the Rice waiver to the Jonathan campaign.
The campaign treasurer then was Ms. Stella Oduah, the current minister of Aviation, enmeshed in various kind of financial and certificate scandals in her ministry.
In recent days, it also emerged that Mr. Oghiadome and Omokore benefited immensely from the alleged huge Kerosene subsidy fraud amounting to about  N1billion a day.
Last week Tuesday, Omokore sent his wife, Angela, to meet with President Jonathan in order to explain that her husband did not partake in the fraud, but Jonathan appeared unconvinced as the CBN governor buffeted the nation with further revelation of massive fraud in the petroleum sector.
You may wish to know that Angela Omokore is Oghiadome’s goddaughter.
Also, Nigeria’s Petroleum minister Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke reportedly washed her hands off the fraud case claiming that Oghiadome and Omokore short-changed Nigerians in the deals.
When the former Chief of Staff showed up for work at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday morning he was told to submit his resignation letter. After complying, he returned to his residence.
He was not subjected to any questioning or surveillance, leaving him free to do as he pleases with his time and resources. He is now claiming he resigned to pursue his political ambition.
In order to fend off inquiries, presidential spokesperson Reuben Abati told reporters that Mr Oghiadomhe had “voluntarily resigned” to go and participate in politics.
The spin is aimed at deflecting public outrage that could force Jonathan’s hands in taking action against others involved in the NNPC fraud, particularly the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Alison-Madueke. She is currently reported to be “sick,” and is maintaining a low profile in far away London.
The challenge facing Jonathan is that, particularly in an election year, it would be impossible for him to claim that Oghiadomhe carried out his full briefcase of alleged corruption activities at the NNPC all the way from Aso Rock without the knowledge of the Minister, and that he has done all of it since 2010 without the knowledge of the presidency and the security agencies.
Whenever there is obvious corruption in Jonathan's government, nobody is prosecuted.